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handles for Oxford Text Archive (OTA) are broken #5

Open kreetrapper opened 7 months ago

kreetrapper commented 7 months ago

The Oxford Text Archive has changed their repository system and as a result their old PIDs no longer work.

Example: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2561

There is a 1:1 mapping to their new handle server.

Example: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2561

The change has happened at the end of 2023 (first mail exchange on this topic starts at 11 December), but while Martin Wynne has promised to implement a redirect from the old to the new handles, so far this has not happened yet.

kreetrapper commented 7 months ago

sent a reminder about this to Martin Wynne today

kreetrapper commented 7 months ago

Forgot to add this reply from Martin (which came the same day):

we asked for a new VM to host the handle server in September last year, and we're still waiting for it to be set up.

twagoo commented 1 month ago

The metadata records in the VLO use the new prefix. Not sure if that resolves the issue as far as we're concerned?

kreetrapper commented 1 month ago

I also changed them in the CRF. But I think the issue is that the old handles are no longer resolving, and hence not "persistent".

twagoo commented 1 month ago

I also changed them in the CRF. But I think the issue is that the old handles are no longer resolving, and hence not "persistent".

Not strictly a metadata curation issue then but I agree that it would be good to keep it documented until resolved.